This Wednesday and Thursday, I will be visiting the campus of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary to spend some time with old friends (Doug Baker and Nathan Finn) and hoping to connect with many students for the first time. Tom Ascol will be speaking in chapel Thursday morning, and I am tagging along as a personal [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Headed to Southeastern Seminary
October 28, 2008New Project: Sowing Grace
October 28, 2008This weeks marks five months that I have been on staff at Grace Baptist in Cape Coral, Florida. This has been a wonderful and eventful journey to say the least! Four of those past five months have been spent focusing on church planting with our church’s new church planting initiative. On July 13,Tom Ascol shared [...]
The Cross Shapes the Whole of Our Mission
October 27, 2008Two books on mission that I have been reading of late are Salvation to the Ends of the Earth: A Biblical Theology of Mission by Andreas J. Kostenberger and Peter T. O’Brien (in the New Studies in Biblical Theology series by IVP) and Salvation Belongs to Our God: Celebrating the Bible’s Central Story by Christopher [...]
The First Order of Business Is to Know the Gospel
October 23, 2008Thabiti Anywabile, in his excellent little book What Is a Healthy Church Member? has a chapter on being gospel-saturated that is work the price of the entire book. Allow me to post an excerpt where Anyabwile express the importance and definition of the gospel.
“The first order of business is to know the gospel . . [...]
2008 Total Church Conference Audio
October 22, 2008Drew Goodmanson has shared that the 2008 Total Church Conference audio is now available online. Steve Timmis and Tim Chester are the authors of Total Church: A Radical Reshaping Around Gospel and Community which was recently re-published by re:lit. I encourage you to check out the main sessions (below). You can also subscribe to the [...]
LEAD Conference Live-Streaming
October 20, 2008Anyone who happened to catch some of the Catalyst Conference online, you may remember the Planting Channel which hosted the video feed along with an interactive chat. This week, the same Planting Channel will be providing live-streaming for the main conference sessions. I encourage you to check out the sessions and join in the discussion [...]
POTW :: sanibelsunset
October 19, 2008View in Flickr (see it LARGE)
View in Flickr (see it LARGE)
View in Flickr (see it LARGE)
A couple of weeks ago, the elders and deacons (and wives) spent a weekend together for prayer, leadership development, and fellowship. Having returned from the restaurant, this was all I could catch of the sunset that night (which was amazing). [...]
LEAD Conference in St. Louis
October 18, 2008This coming Monday, I am flying out to St. Louis for the LEAD Conference (Acts 29 Bootcamp), and I am really looking forward to what I will learn as well as the people I will meet. If you will be attending the LEAD Conference, please leave a comment as I would love the opportunity of [...]
Word and Spirit in the Early Church
October 17, 2008A couple of months ago, I shared a brief critique on church planting movements while advocating a “word-driven movemental Christianity“. Because of our church’s new church planting initiative, I have been living in the book of Acts quite a bit, which has been rather rewarding. The “word-driven” post speaks to the nature of the Word [...]
Lemke’s Remarks and My Response Regarding Bethlehem Baptist Church
October 16, 2008In the comments of my previous post, Dr. Steve Lemke has responded to my comments regarding the factual errors in his journal article. I was going to leave my response in the comments but at the conclusion felt that it was better to write a follow-up post here. I will not reproduce Lemke’s comment here, [...]
Church Planting in Europe
October 15, 2008It is common knowledge that one of the most difficult areas of church planting in the world is the same turf that fostered the Protestant Reformation–Europe. Nevertheless, the call of the Great Commission is to take the good news of Jesus Christ to all nations, make disciples, and plant churches in His name, no matter [...]
Steve Lemke on Bethlehem Baptist Church, Baptism, and Church Membership
October 14, 2008Steve Lemke is not a fan of Together for the Gospel. The second half of his article is entitled, “Baptists and Presbyterians Not Together: Nine Marks Which Separate Baptists from Presbyterians,” where Lemke lays out his argument for Baptist separation (or, as I would argue, isolation). Interestingly enough, his first two marks are “soul competency” [...]
Steve Lemke on Timothy George and ROSES
October 13, 2008Steve Lemke has a section of his paper cleverly entitled “Flower Power” wherein he explains, to his satisfaction, the different between the “hard version” of TULIP and the softer, more acceptable version of ROSES as presented by Dr. Timothy George. In my previous post, I addressed Lemke’s caricature of the doctrines of grace (other than [...]
Who Is William Guthrie?
October 12, 2008[Reformation Heritage Books has graciously provided this biographical and reprint essay on the life and works of William Guthrie. You can find this information and others in the book, Meet the Puritans.]
William Guthrie (1620-1665)
William Guthrie was born in 1620 to James Guthrie, Laird of Pitforthy, Angus. He was the eldest of five sons, three of [...]
Steve Lemke on TULIP
October 10, 2008Since I addressed the T in TULIP in greater detail in my previous post, I will begin with the U of Unconditional election. While each point of TULIP as addressed by Lemke could (and probably should) be addressed in separate posts, I will am pursuing brevity for the benefit of the reader and should in [...]
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